Every man’s memory is his private literature.
ALDOUS HUXLEYChronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
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Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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It isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
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The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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The third petition of the Lord’s Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone’s will be done but their own.
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If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom…it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.
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The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work’ with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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